Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 July 1895 — Page 3

SEAECH FOE DOLLABS

WAS SUCCESSFUL ONLY IN SAN FRANCISCO. Elusive Yellow Shiners as Scarce as the Proverbial Hen's Tecth-Uoth Gold anj Silver KccoKuizcd by Our Constitution and La we). Almost Unobtainable. The advocates of tlie one dollar standard have raked the otiieial records of Congress and the speeches aud letters of the fathers of the natiou for evidence to show that there never was any intention of having silver money coined for any other purpose than that of mere token money, and they claim that they have established a fact that the fjold dollar was the real and only dollar of the daddies. And they hold that even now the little yellow piece of metal is the true and safe and sound and only honest unit of the measure of values; that in fact the silver piece, being cumbersome, common and fickle, could well be dispensed with aud relegated to the sole use of effete monarchies and pauperized republics. A Chicago man the other day thought he would like to have a few samples of the diminutive yellow shiners and he went to his bank to get them. He made his check and asked for fifty. He was told by the paying teller that the best he could do for him was to give him ten half-eagles but that would do just as well. The customer insisted that he knew what he wanted, and he asked if lie could be accommodate with even five or if not, with a single one. The bank was out of the coin and the teifer could not remember that he had ever handled one in the course of business. Thereupon the customer went to other banks, but with no better success. He -then sent to New York, and the banks of the goldbug city were searcfied in vain for his accommodation. Appealing to fcsiu Francisco, where gold has held almost complete sway for half a century, at last cornered his plunder, Dut he was informed that he could have the pieces only on payment of fifty cents premium on each one, which would bring the cost of fifty units up to $75. And how is that for a measure of values? The market price of the gold dollar is $1.50 because there is a scarcity of the article. The real market value of the gold double eagle or of the gold bar, measured by brains, muscle, the products of the earth and of the air and the water, has been enhanced to almost double the price it held less than a quarter century ago, by reason of its scarcity. The experience of the Chicago man who went into the market with gold standard money to buy a certain product of the mint, which has been cornered by curiosity seekers, was the same as that of every American citizen who goes to market with the products of his land or of nis muscle to buy coin or paper money the value of which is absolutely controlled by the monopolists' gold coin of the world. Sine a SonK o' Silver. They jingle in, they jingle out, from hand to hand e'er spinning, The dollars that our daddies had pass as in the ueuuiuing. Across the couinc out and in, the people hear them ringing. And all the world is listening to hear the song they're singing. It is a song of merriment, that sparkles full of laughter. Or shadowed with the helplessness of a betrayed hereafter; And is the stamp of Uncle Sam a mask of minstrel folly, Through which a troubled heart should pour a mad burleso, tier's volley V The silver dollar of our dad was e'er a faithful measure, Oh, why ungratefully deprive it of its honest pleasure? it jingles in, it jingles out, without a thought of sinninjr. And lets the golden dollars win the tally every inning. The silvery song is good to hear, it lacks the pompous boasting Of idle gold, whose charms are told when bankers clubs are toasting. Oh, let it jingle in and out, the music of the nation. And soon we'll hear the chorus jingling back from all creation. George E. Bo wen. The Silver Unit. In the Forum for June is a very readable article by W. II. Harvey, the author of "Coin's Financial School," which is an argument for the silver unit. The writer explains that in the narrow limits of a magazine article he will only attempt to prove that the fathers made silver dollars the unit of our currency, and he appears to prove Us case, lie quotes Thomas Jefferson, who recommended to Congress that the coins of the United States should be: A golden piece equal in value to 910; "2. The unit, or dollar itself, of silrer; "3. The tenth of a dollar, of silver also; "4. The hundredth of a dollar of copper; And "that the money unit of these States shall bo equal In value to the Spanish milled dollar." He quotes Alexander Hamilton as advising. "One gold piece equal in weight to 10 units or dollars; one gold piece equal to one-tenth of the former, which shall be the unit or dollar; one silver piece which shall also bo a unit or dollar; one silver piece which shall be In weight and value a tenth part of the silver unit or dollar. As all know the eagle, half eagle, quarter eagle, dollar, etc., were adopted, but section 9, of the law of 1S'J2, proves that the silver dollar was accepted by Congress as the unit, viz: "Dollar or unit, each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as

now current, and to contain 371 4-lft grains of pure,. or 410 grains of standard silver." Mr. Harvey asserts that It was not until 1S73 that the law was changed to read that one of the gold coins should be "a one-dollar piece, which at the standard weight of 25 S-10 grains shall be unit of value."

Silver Men Knthuslastic. The New York World recently printed telegraphic replies from those members of the now Congress from whom it was able to secure answers. The questions related to free coinage, tariff changes and income tax. In its summary of the silver question the World says: "Owing to the fact that the exact addresses of new Congressman are frequently indeliuite, it has been impossible to reach a large number of them on such short notice. In addition to this, nearly a hundred Senators and Representatives were found to be away from home on trips abroad or in other distant parts. Next session being a long one, this is the only chance for vacation the Congressmen will have, and they avail of it largely. "In a general way it may be said that out of 110 members who gave unequivocal answers to the silver question, 55 are unqualifiedly in favor of free coinage, 44 favor bimetallism, generally with the proviso of an international agreement. Only 17 can fairly be classed as favoring a single gold standard, aud the attitude of some of these, even, is not definite. The Southern am1 Western States are almost uuanin. for free coinage, the Central States It , towards silver, with international li metallic qualifications, and it is only in New York, New England and adjacenc Eastern States that there are any avowedly gold standard men. "It is to be noticed that the silver men are open and enthusiastic in their declarations They speak like men who know what, they want, and are bound to get it or know the reason why. The opponents of free coinage almost all lack this aggressive vigor and speak with numerous qualifications. "A few details by States will be interesting. Alabama. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho. Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming are solid for silver, so far as heard from. "The bimetallists are chiefly in Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minne sota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Penn sylvania and West Virginia. "New York, New Jersey, Fennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont have the gold advocates. "Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana and most of the other Southern States are solid for the income tax. New York and the East generally oppose it. Elsewhere the division is nearly even." Of course it must be remembered that the World in using the term bimetallist does so upon the theory that free silver coinage, independent at 1G to 1, would mean silver monometallism. In many instances the replies of the free coinage people contain the phrase "no compromise." Roth Metals Recognized. The Constitution and laws of the United States recognize both gold and silver as money, In the ratio of 1 to 10, and it Is perfectly plain to a mind unwarped by Wall street that the Government may redeem its bonds or its notes in cither or both metals. If, however, the President will simply let the matter alone there will be no trouble. The people do not want their paper money redeemed in either silver or gold. They are absolutely satisfied with the credit of the Government; and thus it is that the plainest people those who disturb themselves the least with abstruse theories have the true and simple theory of finance. The gold speculators want gold for their greenbacks only because the Government policy makes gold a commodity. Changre that policy and grive the administrators of affairs sufficient revenues and there will be smooth sailing. The trouble with the country now is, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, calamity shouting. The monometallists represent that there is a condition of great danger to our credit, and that the most extraordinary remedies and safeguards arc necessary. The alarm la purely artificial. The dangerous peoplo are those who arc crying that the ship is on fire and scaring impressionable and timid people into a watery grave. There is no danger of a conflagration; and scares like the present one will not be possible after silver is fully rehabilitated. SUylock Humbutcucry. The new theory, says the Augusta Chronicle, that It Is Incumbent to pay debts only in gold that are expressly payable in either gold or silver is simply the skillful hutnbuggcry of the same class of shylocks who bought United States bonds in depreciated paper money and insisted on their redemption only in gold. The gold standard is a steadily appreciating standard and necessarily so because of the utterly inadequate quantity-of gold and the ever increasing demand. The creditor takes no chance. His debt is sure to become more valuable with every year, and the debtor who contracts to pay in gold is playing against a onesided game in which he must inevitably lose. New Bilver Paper. The American Iiimetallist, which has Just begun publication at Huntington, Ind., is an able exponent of the cause to which its title alludes. It Is devoted to giving the news of the paramount question and to discission of the same. It is entirely non-partisan. Nor is it devoted to the movement recently begun a short time ago in Washington for the formation of a national silver party. It believes in trying to secure bimetallism by any safe and effective method that may be presented.

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AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Good Water 13 Important in Growing StockTalk Gently to Horses Don't -eulect the Vegetable Garden Formula for Dordeaux Mixture. rienty of Good Water. In the growing and feeding of stock for market, the supplying of all the fresh, pure water that the animals can drink is an important item. Not only is it necessary for the stock to have all the water they want, says X. J. S.. in the Nebraska Farmer, but they should have it when they want it. and in addition, it must be pure and fresh. To compel animals of any kind to drink impure water is to greatly increase the risks of disease, and the maintaining of good health is always an important Item in the feeding of stock economically. When it can be arranged, water from good running streams, and especially if these are fed by good living springs, all the better. Still, there is always risk of disease being carried from one farm to another. The better plan, whenever it can be done, is to have a good well, with tanks arranged in the different pastures, where the stock can help themselves. With a little care the water can be kept pure and fresh, and with good tanks there can always be a full supply. No other way j of watering will entirely answer. To j only supply water at stated times is to J . jmnel the animals at times to positive ly suffer for it, and this cannot but be a detriment. So far as is possible, there should be a supply kept where the3' can help themselves, and then, if it is pure and fresh, it will be a help in keeping the stock thrifty. Talk Gently to Horses. Accustom your horse to a low, calm tone of voice, and use it if anything breaks, or they become frightened, and they will always be manageable. The horse that listens for loud commands is carried away by panic. On buying a new horse get him into your habits as soon as it is possible to do so. Look to the Vegetable Garden. Do not neglect your vegetable gardon. No other portion of the farm is a better-paying investment. Keep some of your luxuries for the home table. A crop of shoats will clean up the edible odds and ends of the farm to better advantage than anything else. Give them a chance. llordeaux Mixture. v The Cornell formula for Dordeaux: mixture is: Copper sulphate, G pounds; quicklime, 1 pounds; water 40 to 50 gallons. Place the copper sulphate in a bag of coarse cloth and immerse in at least four gallons of water, using an earthen or wooden vessel. Shake the lime in like quantity of water, then add to the dissolved copper sulphate. Add the balance of the water. It is ready for immediate use, but will keep indefinitely. For peach foliage add au extra pound of lime. For carnation and cabbages It will adhere better if about a pound of hard soap be dissolved and added to the mixture. The Bordeaux mixture is for use against rot, mold, mildew and all other forms of fungous disease. Spoiling Huttcr After It Is Made. Dairy writers frequently caution against placing butter where it will absorb the odors or flavors from decaying vegetables. The worst thing about this is the need of it Dutter will absorb odors, not only from stale vegetables, but from sound ones, and they,iinpart to the butter a flavor that destroys or overpowers the true butter flavor. A case is in mind just now. The writer was supplying butter to the former owner of this farm, and one day planned what was intended for a picasant surprise, so, before the cover was nailed down, some" nice apples with a delicious aroma wore placed in the package, separated from the butter by a cloth circle and a layer of salt. The surprise was on the other side. Word came back that the butter was fine in looks, grain and everything, but flavor, that was not agreeable. Now, some butter has an unpleasant flavor that never was near a rosy apple, and there was a possibility that the cause should be sought elsewhere, but in due time came a later report saying that the butter was excellent after the surface layer had been removed. This suggests another point: Customers should have a suitable place to keep butter after they get it. If the surface is all the time exposed to the odors of vegetables and kitchen flavors unclassified, the best of butter wil soon get off flavor, and the maker will bo under suspicion of furnishing butter that will not keep. Feeding PIks IfcKiilarly. A pig's digestion is much more easily ruined than is often thought. The ravenous appetite of a hungry pig leads to the notion that it can be trusted to eat without regard to time, Dut nothing Is surer than that a pig with food always before It will grow poor. Its digestive apparatus never has time to rest, and soon fails to work. There should be regular times for feeding, aud these should bs far enough apart to allow the pig to become hungry. A little less grain than will be eaten should be Riven If the pis is fattened. The balance can be made up with clover pasture in summer and beet roots In winter. Breeding or store animals need very little grain, but can be fed all they will eat of roots and grass, though not even with these giving food to be trodden under foot and wasted. Sack ins Meat. The smoked hams, shoulders, jowls and sides should now bo taken down and placed In oiled paper sacks, and then hung up in a dark, cool room. If

the cellar is dry and cool, that will answer; but if it is damp and not properly ventilated, it will cause the meat to mold. A darkened room in the house will suit admirably. Another good way is to pack the meat in whole oats or in coarse bran. Some pack in ashes, but the ashes, unless very dry, are sure to give the meat a very unpleasant taste. Ashes are also usually very dirty. Whatever plan is adopted, it should be done at once, as the fly will soon blow the exposed meat, and do a great amount of damage in a short time. Examine each piece of meat as it is taken down, to see if there are any skippers. At the hock is the place to look. The paper sacks can be had for 2 cents each from any large furnishing store, and if taken care of, will last several years.

Delays in Transplanting. It often happens when plants have been received that it is during a wet spell when it is impossible to get them transplanted. It would be better of course If the transplanting had been done before the rain, but if the plants or trees are heeled in and exposed to the rain a new set of roots will form in three or four days, and the transplanting can then be done with scarcely any check. The onfy difficulty will probably be too great, haste to get at the wort after the storm ceases. The soil should not be worked while it is sticky. Wait until the soil will crumble when it is stirred. This will keep the soil moist and will also admit air to the roots, which is quite as necessary as is moisture to growth. If heavy rains come after transplanting, the surface soil should be stirred to break the crust that will form on it. Phosphates Exhaust the Soil. The only way in winch I can see that superphosphate can "exhaust" the soil is by making the plants more thrifty, and more numerous, especially making winter wheat better, and hence the plants send out more roots and farther into the soil, thereby absorbing more of its natural fertility. And that is just what we want, provided we make the proper returns. Profit in Sheep. Look more to the mutton side than that of the fleece, as there is four times the profit in mutton, says the National Stockman. A sheep may be fed for one-seventh of the food that an ox requires, and will make a growth of nearly three-quarters of a pound a day for tiie 2S0 days of its life. And for the next GOO will put on a half-pound per day. Don't give up your sheep whatever you do. Nettle Hairs of Parsnips. The nettle hairs of parsnips are irritating to animals, producing an annoying aud painful skin eruption. If parsnip tops are fed to stock, care should be taken that they are still fresh and unwilted. The Iican Weevil. Prof. Lintner says the bean weevil may be destroyed by placing the beans in a barrel or close room aud setting a saucer of bi-sulphide of carbon oh them, then shutting out all air. The gas from the bi sulphide, being heavy, will descend and permeate the whole mass, killing all insect life. Swcct-Fccnted Mock Oranges. If about to obtain a mock orange for your garden, do not forget that all varieties are not sweet-scented; at least, not greatly so. The name of the oldfashioned, sweet-scented one is Philadelphus coronarius. Notes. Tota to beetles will lea re potatoes to attack egg plants. They seem to have greater partiality for egg plants than for anything else, though they will also feast on tomato plants if potatoes are not up and growing. There may be overproduction In every grade of farm stock excepting draft horses, and these buyers are eagerly hunting; there is a top price for those weighing 1.S00 or more; for the cities must have them, and have them now. If the tomatoes, early corn, beans and melons have been touched by frost, though not killed, take no chances, but replant without dela3. Some of the plants may grow, but they will be backward. The later plants will overtake them. The best varieties of plums are very profitable, and fruit-growers are of the unanimous opinion that the curculio is a thing now not much to be dreaded; where plums are planted in large quantities Its ravages are hardly felt. It Is the isolated tree which suffers. Winter wheat is one of the hardiest of crops, and unless attacked by injects seldom fails to produce fairly well. For that reason wheat will receive attention on many farms aud can be relied upon as being sure to return something in the shape of straw and grain. Use a crowbar in setting up the Lima bean poles, and stick them down deep enough to protect them against the winds. Much carelessness Is sometimes noticed In the placing of the poles, and when a few of them fall down they cause the entire garden to appear unsightly. Never get the idea that any old hack will do for a brood mare; she should bo an animal of intelligence and a good specimen physically. Then if the same rule Is observed In selecting the sire, and the ancestors of both are well looked to, you may expect a colt which will pay for the raising, but not otherwise. Currant and gooseberry bushes are often injured by the borer. The egg is laid about June 1. When hatched, the young borer works Its way Into the cane and remains until the following spring, eating out the pith and causing death of cane. As soon as the leaves start the affected parts are easily discovered and should be cut out aud burned at once.

EGG AND WHISKY.

A Sunday School Scholar with a Knowledge of Practical Life. The 2ZO pupils of the Sunday school of the Fifteenth Street Christian Church had gone through their lessons, und most of the children were shifting their i'eet uneasily when Supt. Ernest Forbes announced from the pulpit platform that Attorney W. O. Thomas would make a short address ami then the benediction would be said. Attorney Thomas mounted the platform with a slow movement and a thoughtful air, and r00 eyes watched him as he fondled his chin and remarked that he would say a few words about the damage that whisky would do to the brain when it was taken into the stomach. "Now," he said. " is there a boy or girl here who can tell me what is the principal constituent part of the human brain?" That word constituent befuddled most of the little minds present, but one girl, who attends the high school on Meek days, raised her hand and said: 'Albumen." "That is right." said the lawyer. "Albumen forms the principal part of a man's brain. And now can you tell me what forms the principal part of an The same girl answered "albumen" again, and the lawyer looked pleased as he pronounced the answer correct. "Now," he continued, as he laid the forefinger of his right hand in the palm of his left, "now, to show you the effect of whisky on the brain, suppose I break an egg in a glass. Are you listen ingV" Two hundred and fifty heads nodded earnestly. "Well, I brealc this egg in a glass and pour in some whisky on top of it. What do I have then?" Attorney Thomas expected the high school girl to reply that the whisky would turn the egg white and Fpoil It, but she said nothing. lie repeated his question: "What Mould 1 have ir I poured the whisky in the glass with the (KTlf " "I'ggnog!" shouted a little fellow on the front bench. For a moment there was a breathless silence, and then the high school girl snickered and the whole school, teachers and all, burst out into the heartiest laugh that ever echoed from the walls of the church. Amid the din Attorney Thomas gracefully retired, and Supt. Forbes dismissed the school. Portland (Ore.) Telegram. FURNISH NEWSPAPLRCLIPPINGS The Business IIa Grown to Great Proportions in New York. There is a peculiar industry in Gotham which has grown to astonishing proportions. This is the business of furnishing newspaper clippings to individuals, firms, and corporations. There are half a dozen of these firms in New York, which supply customers not only In the United States, but in all parts of the world. One of these newspaper clipping bureaus received an order the other day from the Hawaiian government to send President Dole all the notices, editorials, cartoons and other published matter regarding Hawaii, its government, and its affairs. This is one of the largest orders ever received by a clipping bureau, and it will require the labor of half a dozen bright young women to cull the clippings from newspapers to fill this order. Fvery prominent author, politician and professional man is now a subscriber to one or more of the clipping bureaus, and a busy man finds the system very convenient, for he Is enabled, as It were, to read his newspapers by proxy. The manager of a New York clipping bureau, in speaking of the peculiarities of his business, said yesterday: "Many of our customers are folks with fads and hobbies. A man sent us an order recently for all items about two-headed calves, three-legged chickens and other monstrosities. A leading politician ordered 1O0 Memorial day addresses, from which he could compile a Fourth of July oration which lie had engaged to deliver. Society belles are beginning to to make scrap books of their newspaper notices, and ti e custom will doubtless become a regular social fad in time. The wives of public men are among the best patrons of the clipping bureaus. About the strangest order we have is that of a dealer in tombstones and monuments. He takes all the death notices." New York Commercial Advertiser. A Means of I:s:nfectins Weil. Heavy rains are an- to contaminate wells and spread disease, heno Dr. Franck has brought under the nouce of the Polytechnic Society of Deri in a means of disinfecting wells, which he employs with success. It consists in suspending in the mouth of the well an earthenware dish containing C) to 100 grammes (a gramme is about fifteen grains) of bromine, which, being volatile in air, forms a dense vapor that fills the well, and Is absorbed by the water, thus disinfecting it. The water, it is true, has a slight taste of bromine for a time, but Is wholesome enough. Xct Year. Next year will be the last leap year of the century, and another will not occur until 1S0I. The year 11 X) will not be a leap year. The unusual occurrence Is due to the fact that the addition of one day to each fourth year more than makes nr. the presumed deficiency in the calendar year, and consequently the world Is constantly losing time, as a watch loses it, and therefore theno was danger that In the course of I few thousand years the Fourth of July would come on Christmas. IMg Pay Roll. Tho salary list of the Dank of England, including pensions, aggregates 300,000 per annum. There are 1,100 employes In the bank.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. TH An InterrBtinfc Summary of thi More Important Doings of Oc Ni?!ilMir Weddings and Death Crimm, Cnftualtlca anf General News Noiea of the State. tloosier IIiiw:ji-i Tin: apj le crop near Madison will La Very large. Am. the toll-roads ia Wajne County have leen made Inn. Ota. Ff.i:. aged 11, was drowned 121 a small lake near Kokomo. Ta hu Axii:i:-.v, a farmer near flreenfield. was found dead in b"d. AcroiMMNo to the last enumeration, Montgomery county contains js,r4 votirs. Jay Hi i:i:ai:i, aped 17. fell from a smoke stack at Drazil, and was fatally hurt. VAxnnr.r.t iu; Corxrv wants to enlarge by taking Ohio Township Iroia Warrick County. Tm; old jail at Petersburg i to l remodeled and rented out for residence propel ty. ,7. F. Stam.ky was killed by a Panhandle j assenper train near Anderson, lie was blind. Only a few Heids of wheat will be cut in Hamilton County. cCrop w ill not average three bushels to the acre. CioTi.Kin Fkf.i: fell 50 feet from a hi gh tree near Wabash alighting on his head and killing him instantly. Lr.AiHNu lumlier men say that hard woods in Indiana are alxiut all gone except oak, and that is very scarce. Nixki.y-sf.yf.x taxpaying farmers of St. Joseph county have formally protested against the building'of a new court house. Colfax residents are tired of living in a city, and a iietition will Ik? circulated for t lie purpose of disorganizing the corporation. A number of the recent large fires at Laporte have been trace 1 to incendiaries and it is believed that an effort is being made to burn the city. Da vii S. Watsox and Henry Dorgnian, two life convicts in the Prison South, have Income insane. They w ill probably be removed to the insane asylum. Mus. Dayii (;!. of Piano, Morgan county, hung herself, by tying two towels together and suspending herself from the casing alKwe the door of her house. Ex-AriiTon James C. Lavelle, of Daviess county, serving eight years in the prison south for attempting to burn the court house ?.t Washington, is dying of dropsy. Tm: Monon railroad has paid Cleo. E. Miller, of Prank fort, SIL'.-Vm, the amount of ju'Vment secured by him for injuries fustamed in a wreck near Indianapolis in 10. A iioissf. driven by Mrs. Mary Iloehn, of Seller burg, took fright while Mr:-. Iloehu 1 was on her wav honi" from JelTersonville and ran away, throwing her out and probably fatally injuring her. Ax Elwool servant girl, ho is a somnambulist, got up in her sleep at - o'clock and prepared breakfast. Wasn't awakened until her mistress went down stairs to see why she was ringing the breakfast bell. Fkkhf.kk'K Smith, an employe of Dames' saw-mill at Knightstown, was fatally hurt recently. While operating a cut-off saw a sliver in some manner struck him with such force as to break his skull and jHMietrate his head alout two inches. Jonx Nkwmax, a mere lwy. entered Miss Emma Shepplcr's home at Paleigh, and piayfully snapiel an old revolver. It exploded and the bullet crushed into her brain killing her almost instantlj. The families of the boy and girl are almost w ild over the aft air. Tm: Lane llridge Company, of Chicago, will at one; romove from that city to Wabash, having made a deal with the Wabash lioard of Trade. Wabash business men offered to take Moek if the works were removed to Wabadi. The tiller was acecpted ami a new company organized. Tin: tiovernor has appointed the following trustees of Purdue Fnhersity, as authorized by the lat General Assembly: .six year term, lK-njamhi Harrison, Indianapolis: Charles D. Stunt, Lafayette; William A. Hanks. Laport-. Four year term. Charles Downing". C.tveiiü.'M; .bines M. Darret t. Fort Wayne: Jacob II. Van Natta, llattleground. Two year term, Javi l E. Deem, Spencer: M lvt ter Johnson, Irvington: William II. O. Urien, Lawrenceburg. Ixihaxa possesses shale and sandstone deposits of untold value stecrdmg to stategeologist Platchley, who ha just returned from a thorough inspection of the ledges in the western part of the state. Sandtoneof the highest quality is found in Parke, Fountain and Warren counties, he sa s, and tiK'f'iale K-ds are near Voedersburg, Attica and Cayuga. At the latter place a factory has K-en started that is turning out S.",oo0 pressed brick a day. Dy merely combining the shales any desired color is obtained. At Cayuga is another factory that turns out :i0.e.-) brick a day. Mr. Dlatchley left Assistant Hopkins to complete it he prosiMcti!ig. but he has leanu I enough, he claims, to convince him that the deposits are among the state's greatest resources. Tm: (lovernor has pardoned Peter J. Clark, one of the men u ho participated in the ojK-ra house riot at Lafayette in January, bv.io. The riet w as the result of religious excitement growing out of a lecture by (leorge P. Kudolph, an cx-Cathobc priest. Clark was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and was convicted and sentenced to the ienitentiary for four years. Two other participants were convicted and sentenced to the ienitentiary. They were pardoned pome time ago. The persons who partitioned for the pardon of Clark say he w as misguided; that he had previously teen a goo I citizen ;f Lafayette, and that he has a w ife ami four children dependent on him. Many of the cit '.reus of Tippecanoe County signed the petition. Joiix SriiiNor.K, a well-known resident of Connersville, w hile, fishing, near Alpine, loeame overheated and fell dead, llcart trouble eontriputed toward his demise. He w as about forty years old and leaves a family. Wksi.ky (Ikoss, of Henry ville, sleeps with his artillery in closs proximity, because of a letter, accompanied with a bundle of sw itches, threatening him with violence if he does not ceae paying ins addresses to a lady in that vicinity. Mr. dross is an old soldier, and he has retaliated with a warning that the first White-Cap crowd molesting him will 11 armlv welcomed to hospita'ble grave-